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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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